720I or 720p?

not much difference on my tv. well, from the pc its poor as **** but thats a problem with my cards output i think. from other sources there was little in it with a decent component lead. id still go hdmi every time though.
 
Kappa said:
Maybe I dont hang around Console Games enough so I dont know whether you're being sarcastic or not?

Oh sorry I said I tested every TV possible and I couldnt find a difference. Now THATS sarcasm for ya. I did say I only tried it on my 26".
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lol

I wasn't being sarcastic :)
 
james.miller said:
not much difference on my tv. well, from the pc its poor as **** but thats a problem with my cards output i think. from other sources there was little in it with a decent component lead. id still go hdmi every time though.
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Yeah on my PC I have to use HDMI as using VGA looks terrible...despite VGA looking fine on the 360, must be something to do with my card.
 
I had an HDMI board in my commercial Panasonic Plasma and ended up selling it because I was unable to tell any difference whatsoever between component and HDMI...

This was 3yrs ago... Back then upscaling DVD wasn't about. otherwise I'd of kept it......

Today I would say this is the only real reason I anyone should really bother with HDMI oh and obviously the sound transportation of the port. Today i do not bother with upscaling of DVD, I'd rather just wait for a bluray version of the movie to come out, rather than take dvd and upscale it. So i've not bothered to rebuy the hdmi board.

As for pic quality well, depends on your set, but a quality Panny I couldn't tell after scrutinizing it very very carefully.

As for 1080P vs 720P.... Unless you have a 55inch or bigger then once again I'll doubt you'll notice...
 
thedoc46 said:
As for 1080P vs 720P.... Unless you have a 55inch or bigger then once again I'll doubt you'll notice...
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...you are joking right? It's nothing to do with the screen size that determines whether or not you can see the difference...It's how close you are sitting to the tv to discern the additional pixels (thus detail) on screen.:rolleyes:

I can tell you for a fact that if you were sitting 3-4 feet away from a screen you could tell the difference between 1920x1080 and 1280x720.
 
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1080p = 1920 x 1080 pixels
1080i = 1920 x 1080 pixels

720p = 1280 x 720 pixels

There is no way a flat panel can display 1080 interlaced so if you set to 1080i you will see a 1920 x 1080 pixel image scaled and displayed at the refresh rate of the screen.

Set to 720p you will see a 1280 x 720 pixel image scaled and displayed at the refresh rate of the screen.

If all things are equal with the quality of the electronics there is no difference at all between 1080i /1080p and no advantage to a device outputting 1080p. Especially with respect to movie playback all the device is doing is doubling the frames itself instead of the TV doing the same function, very often the process just happens twice.

ie,
The question for me is do I want my pioneer to do the deinterlace or my ps3 , I've tried both and surprise surprise the pioneer does a better job!
 
SS-89 said:
It's nothing to do with the screen size that determines whether or not you can see the difference.
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No, it's both, as you sit closer to the screen you are better able to see the difference as you say, but also as you increase the size of the screen the (edit) pixel size increases changing the distance at which you can notice the difference.
 
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Sareth said:
No, it's both, as you sit closer to the screen you are better able to see the difference as you say, but also as you increase the size of the screen the dot pitch increases changing the distance at which you can notice the difference.
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Fair enough, point is you dont need to have a 55 inch + screen to tell the difference. You could have a 22" monitor and at 1 foot away you would be able to tell the difference.
 
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